The New Mike Hammer (TV Series 1984–1989) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error The cases of Mickey Spillane's classic private eye character. Creator: An Australian private detective approaches Hammer to find a missing author. Her only clue is 'The Face', Hammer's mysterious woman. He catches up with the The Face and finds out her story. Together ... 8.6 An elderly couple goes to Mike and tells them that they placed all their money in gold. And the one handling their money won't give it to them. Mike initially tells them to go to a lawyer he knows. ... 8.3 Hammer is on the sidelines at a football game when the quarterback is killed. Hammer investigates and finds that there were plenty of reasons because man was into gambling and throwing games. However...

7.8 a list of 26 titles created 14 Oct 2013 a list of 36 titles created 11 Jan 2015 a list of 24 titles created 28 May 2015 a list of 42 titles created 7 months ago a list of 21 titles created 2 weeks ago Title: The New Mike Hammer (1984–1989) 6.9/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 2 nominations. See more awards » Photos Stacy Keach's original portrayal of the title character is revived with a new Velda and a different cop as his friend. Mike's cases are arranged to reflect the times of the late '90's. Stars: Stacy Keach, Shane Conrad, Shannon Whirry Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry, two of the most wanted outlaws in the history of the West, are popular "with everyone except the railroads and the banks", since "in all the trains and banks ...

See full summary » Stars: Ben Murphy, Roger Davis, Pete Duel Mystery/suspense series based on Robert Parker's "Spenser" novels. Spenser, a private investigator living in Boston, gets involved in a new murder mystery each episode. Stars: Robert Urich, Avery Brooks, Ron McLarty The Korean War MASH unit veteran operates as Chief Surgeon in a major city hospital with his colleagues. Stars: Pernell Roberts, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Charles Siebert Rick Hunter is a renegade cop who breaks the rules and takes justice into his own hands. Partnered with the equally stunning and rebellious Sgt. McCall, the tough-minded duo set out to crack down on L.A.'s slimiest criminals. Stars: Fred Dryer, Stepfanie Kramer, Charles Hallahan Matt Houston is a wealthy Texan who moves to California to oversee his family's offshore drilling enterprises but spends most of his time dabbling in his private investigator hobby. Stars: Lee Horsley, Pamela Hensley, Lincoln Kilpatrick The stories of the students and faculty of the New York City High School for the Performing Arts.

Stars: Debbie Allen, Carlo Imperato, Gene Anthony Ray A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in his city. Stars: Telly Savalas, Dan Frazer, Kevin Dobson Two brothers of disparate tastes and manners run a private detective agency. Stars: Jameson Parker, Gerald McRaney, Mary Carver Wheelchair-bound detective Robert T. Ironside battles the bad guys on the streets of San Francisco. Stars: Raymond Burr, Don Galloway, Don Mitchell A veteran cop with more than 20 years of experience is teamed with a young Inspector to solve crimes in San Francisco. Stars: Karl Malden, Michael Douglas, Reuben Collins A young girl is kidnapped and there is an attempt on the daughter of an well-known actress. The kidnapper then turns up dead. Hammer is hired to protect the girl and travels to Los Angeles, where she is then kidnapped. Director: Ray Danton Edit Storyline Mike Hammer is a two-fisted private eye. He's tough, he's honest, and the girls love him. The series follows his exploits as he solves a variety of crimes, most of which involve a murder somewhere along the way...

Written by Afterburner <aburner@erols.com> 26 January 1984 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer See more » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia There were fewer episodes in the 1984 season due to the fact that Stacy Keach had to serve a six-month jail sentence in England after being convicted of cocaine possession. See more » Connections (Taiping, Malaysia) – See all my reviews One could only dream to be a P.I. like the Mikey himself. Semi-Classic noir-style work. One could hate watching this series first time around. But surely, after some viewing you'll back for more. Okey, the dialog are Z-class, the acting are so-so and women might felt male chauvinism is on the prowl. Heck, where can you find a guy who's seems could dodge bullet when he's slower than a jumping hare? How about those one-liners reply when bashing up the bad guys or flirting up a chick? Speaking of chicks, Mikey does his best to have the right enjoyment with different lady (or sometimes ladies) every different week.

And yet he's fantasizing about the Face. Sigh, he could even live another day without getting paid at the end of the story. Yeah, I might be freaking weirdo who like this series. Just like the other 80's stuff being replayed on TV like The A-Team, MacGyver & Santa Barbara (duh). Then again, I always wait for the appearance of Velda on the show. (p.s. anybody knows her whereabouts nowadays?) 7 of 10 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes Mike Hammer Mike Hammer Created by Mickey Spillane (1918-2006) "The monicker is Mike Hammer, kid. I'm a private eye." --Please allow him to introduce himself, I, the Jury "I don't want to arrest anyone. I just want to shoot somebody." -- Mike Hammer in I, the Jury "There's no such thing as innocence - innocence touched with guilt is as good a deal as you can get." -- Mike Hammer in Kiss Me, Deadly. Whatever else you may think about MIKE HAMMER, one word may well be appropriate: extreme.

The Hammer books are not only extreme in their subject matter, but they also have a tendency to provoke an extreme reaction. The first - and best known - in the series, I, The Jury, quite literally takes no prisoners. Written in six days it is a pulp classic. Avenging a friend's death, Hammer makes his mark following a code of violence which allows nothing to stand in his way. The bloody ending leaves no room for anything much, let alone subtlety. Extreme indeed but there is no questioning the impact of the book or the fact that, in picking up where Race Williams left off, Hammer was in the classic P.I. mold. The reaction from Spillane's peers was equally extreme. Few writers have been as disliked as much as Spillane. Anthony Boucher maintained that I, The Jury should be "required reading in a Gestapo training school". The books, however, sold in their millions (by the early 80's Spillane had sold nearly 150 million). But the genre continued to shun him. Although Hammer received a 'life long achievement' award from the Private Eye Writers of America, no similar honour was forthcoming from the Mystery Writers of America.

Hated by the 'liberal' writing establishment - for some reason - Hammer very probably represented a rampant right wing and reactionary politics. This is entirely in keeping with his historical context - the expansionist and paranoiac 50's America - an age when America lost what little innocence it could pretend to have. Call him sexist, perverse or psychotic, Mike Hammer wouldn't have even understood what you were talking about - and would definitely not have liked it even if he did. "...Kill 'em left and right, show 'em that we aren't so soft after all. Kill, kill, kill, kill" (One Lonely Night). Its interesting to note, for example, that the vogue for extreme violence - take any film from Dirty Harry to Natural Born Killers - is given huge support in opposing its censorship by the very people who would also condemn Hammer. Hammer certainly took no prisoners. Within the first five books forty-eight people die violently - thirty-four of whom had Hammer to thank for their untimely demise. The books are littered with an almost casually extreme violence: a cigarette lighter flicked into an eye, clothes stripped of a woman who is a communist and who is then whipped.

Whatever you thought about Hammer, he was not one to walk away from the fight. One Lonely Night for example sees Hammer take on a liberal judge who condemns his actions. Critics? Who needs them? Whatever else you say or think, it's hard to ignore Mike Hammer. Respectfully submitted by Peter Walker . ANOTHER TAKE Forget about comparisons to Chandler or Hammett. Mike Hammer's roots go directly to Race Williams , Carroll John Daly's seminal eye-for-an-eye shoot-first private detective. If, as has often been repeated, Nero Wolfe is the son of Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler, then Hammer is the bastard son of Race and his nemisis, The Flame (A.K.A. "The Girl With The Criminal Mind") as suggested by Tony Sparafucile in the 1978 preface to a Race Williams reprint. Not for Hammer the chivalric romance of Philip Marlowe , or the cold, amoral, passionless vengeance of Sam Spade . Nope, the fuel that stokes Hammer's bloody fury is vengeance, and lots of it.

Clad in a trenchcoat, with his hat jammed down low on his forehead, his trusty .45 strapped on and loaded for bear, with his beloved secretary, Velda, holding the fort back at the office, Mike goes down the mean (and very viscious) streets of New York, shooting a few here, kicking a few groins there, the blood lust flowing in his veins as he makes the world safe for his particular brand of justice. Hammer's "fever dream melodramas," as Max Allan Collins referred to them, must have struck a nerve with the public. His books were instant bestsellers. Indeed, Spillane has to be considered one of the bestselling authors of all time, and certainly the bestselling mystery author, with over 160 million (and by some accounts, over 200 million) books sold. And in 1953, at the height of Hammer-mania, Hammer made it to the big screen in the Harry Essex-directed I, the Jury. Biff Elliot (who?) starred as Hammer, and managed to capture some of the brooding brutality of the character.

It was originally offered in 3-D, no less, and while nobody will ever mistake it for The Maltese Falcon, it got the job done. The same year -- it was a big one for Spillane and Hammer --That Hammer Guy made its radio debut. On air, Mickey Spillane's hard-boiled detective obviously couldn't engage in the violence and sexual escapades that excited the millions of readers of the paperback novels. In fact, Spillane didn't even write the radio scripts; Ed Adamson did, but Ed managed to convey the gritty realism of Hammer's world, within the confines of network broadcasting. The series debuted on January 6, 1953 and only ran until October 5, 1953. It was an excellent show of its type but since it arrived after television, it failed like many other fine radio shows. Larry Haines made a perfect Mike Hammer, having previously been the lead on Treasury Agent as well as Manhunt. When he spotted "a sexy dame wrapped around a bar stool" or threatened a punk with "I'll wrap your head around this bed post", the listeners believed this guy was for real.

Hammer's daily arena of crummy dives, back alleys, and bourbon soaked flop-houses was the stuff of this radio series. At least once in most episodes, "smoke swirled up from the nose of a gun." Jan Miner provided the voice of most of the hip-swinging broads Hammer encountered. Richard Lewis was the director; he had also directed The Falcon and Murder and Mr. Malone. Even the sponsors for this Mutual Network series seemed to fit: Esquire Magazine ("...this month's issue has a revealing sexual expose: Call Girls and Fall Guys..."), Camel Cigarettes (every character smoked on this show) and Kix cereal ("Food For Action!"). A total of seventeen episodes have survived and are in trading currency today. 1953 also saw the appearance of a Mike Hammer comic strip, From the Files of...Mike Hammer, scripted by Spillane himself. Sorta appropriate, since originally, Hammer was intended to be a comic book eye (under the name Mike Danger ) until the bottom fell out of the post-war comic market. The strip appeared in dailys, and a self-contained Sunday continuity, and Spillane claims to have written most of the strip himself.

Alas, this was the 1950's, and what the public eagerly snapped up in paperbacks wasn't looked on with much favor on the comics page. The strip was cancelled, in a censorship battle, over excessive violence, but Spillane fans like Max Allan Collins have had some prtetty nice things to say about it. In 1954, there was a first attempt to bring Hammer to television. The 1954 pilot starred Brian Keith as Hammer, and was written and directed by Blake Edwards. By most accounts, it was pretty good, but nobody bought it. But a few years later n 1958, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, starring Darrin McGavin, made its debut. The syndicated series ran for two years. Spillane fell out of favor -- and certainly even further out of critical favor -- in the sixties. He still managed to sell an astounding number of books, of course, but Hammer's essential conservatism and taste for violence seemed out of place.

In the more conservative eighties, however, Hammer came riding back, introduced to a whole new generation of fans when Warner Brothers released a new film version of I, The Jury, starring a smouldering, slightly psychotic Armand Assante as Hammer and, more significantly, CBS started airing Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, featuring Stacy Keach as Hammer. Unfortunately, for many fans, Keach's Hammer was all wrong. The cheesy mustache, the anachronistic fedora and the glib attitude made it all seem like some rather smug period piece. Some decent scripts, by people like Joe Gores, and a lack of any real competition in the genre, though, were enough to keep the show going, through various permutations, for a few years. In fact, there was even a hiatus of sorts, when Keach was invited to stay at the crossbar hotel for a bit, due to the posession of a controlled substance or two. Even more interesting, impressionist Rich Little was called in to do Keach's voice-overs of a few shows left in the can. A few of the shows were even nominated for Edgars. The eighties also saw the publication of One Lonely Knight , Max Allan Collins and James L.

Traylor spirited critical defense of Spillane's much-maligned work. All the attention was enough to prompt Spillane to write a new Mike Hammer novel, The Killing Man (1989). In 1993, John Lau was hired to script a made-for-television flick featuring Keach as an older Hammer, trying to adjust to life in retirement. But in thetheir infinite wisdom, CBS decided to create an all new, young Mike Hammer and stick him in the then hot location of the moment- Miami. "The anti-violence on tv movement was huge back then as it was an election year, and I was "advised" to tone things down," Lau relates, "so I made it funny and titled it "Deader Than Ever". It eventually aired as Come Die With Me, but it tanked in the ratings while Lau was writing the follow up. And another new Hammer novel, Black Alley, popped up in 1996, just in time to coincide with a new syndicated television series that Jay Bernstein had managed to sell, with Keach returning as Hammer.

The general consensus on Rara-Avis was that the series looked okay and the music was good; even the totally unnecessary new sidekick wasn't too bad, but the scripts weren't as strong as they could be. Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith . Thanks to Max Allan Collins and Lynn Myers for their help. UNDER OATH "It's easy prose to mock. The fact is, heartless youngsters such as myself probably read and saw Mickey Spillane parodies before reading the real thing. But he is a pro when it comes to pacing." -- Laura Lippman, The Baltimore Sun,1996 THE EVIDENCE "I don't give a damn for a human life any more, even my own. Want to hear that philosophy? It's simple enough. Go after the big boys. Oh, don't arrest them, don't treat them to the dignity of the democratic process of courts and law... do the same thing to them that they'd do to you! Treat 'em to the unglorious taste of sudden death." -- One Lonely Night . "I turned him around to face me, to let him look at what I was and see how I enjoyed his dying...

I had his neck in my one hand and I leaned on the railing while I did it. I squeezed and squeezed and squeezed until my fingers were buried in the flesh of his throat and his hands clawed at my arm frantically, trying to tear me away.... I laughed a little bit." -- ibid. "But someday, maybe, I'd stand on the steps of the Kremlin, with a gun in my fist and I'd yell at them to come out and if they wouldn't I'd go in and get them and when I had them lined up against the wall I'd start shooting until all I had left was a row of corpses." -- ibid. "He took off like a herd of turtles and I was left alone..." -- Hammer scares off a college kid in I, the Jury. Could someone please tell me what the hell he means? "The temperature was six below zero and it kept me from dying on the spot because the blood coagulated and clotted in ugly smears of cloth and skin and the pain hadn't started yet, so when the little fat guy who saw my eyes open and still bright pulled me away from the carnage he was almost in the shock I was going into. Nobody would listen to him. He was a drunk.

I was nearly dead." -- Black Alley The Will to Kill (2017).. Buy this book .. Kindle it! SHORT STORIES "The Night I Died" (1953; unproduced radio play) Tidied up and presented as a short story by Max Allan Collins in 1998's Private Eyes , edited by Spillane and Collins "The Screen Test of Mike Hammer" (July 1955, Male; 1995, Hard-Boiled) "The Killing Man" (December 1989, Playboy; a condensation of the novel) "Grave Matter" (2010, Crimes By Moonlight; co-written by Max Allan Collins) "So Long, Chief" (February-May 2013, The Strand Magazine ; co-written by Max Allan Collins) "Fallout" (November 2014-February 2015, The Strand Magazine ; co-written by Max Allan Collins) COLLECTIONS The Mike Hammer Collection Volume 1 (2001)... Buy this book Handsome new paperback omnibus collection of first three Mike Hammer novels, with a new introduction by Max Allan Collins.

The Mike Hammer Collection Volume 2 (2001)... Buy this book Second trade paperback omnibus collects One Lonely Night, The Big Kill and Kiss Me, Deadly, plus an introduction by Lawrence Block. . The Mike Hammer Collection Volume 3 (2010)... Buy this book Third big collection rounds up The Girl Hunters, The Snake and The Twisted Thing. A Long Time Dead (2016; with Max Allan Collins)... Buy this book . . Kindle it!

The first-ever collection of Hammer stories RADIO "Body Odor" (November 9, 1997) "Sins of the Father" (November 16, 1997) "A Penny Saved" (November 23, 1997) "The Life You Save" (January 18, 1998) "The Long Road to Nowhere" (January 25, 1998) "The Art of Murder" (February 1, 1998) "Countdown to Murder" (February 8, 1998) "The Cutting Edge" (February 15, 1998) "Big Brother's Secret" (February 22, 1998) "A Candidate for Murder" (March 1, 1998) "Dump the Creep" (April 12, 1998) "Chop Shop" (April 19, 1998) "The Maya Connection" (April 26, 1998) "Lucky in Love" (May 3, 1998) "Songbird

, Part 1" (May 10, 1998) "Songbird, Part 2" (May 17, 1998) "Gone Fishing" (May 24, 1998) "Dead Men Talk" (May 31, 1998) "A New Leaf, Part 1, June 7, 1998) "A New Leaf, Part 2" (June 14, 1998) REFERENCE Mike Hammer Mike Hammer Edit Block no caption Michael "Mike" Hammer is a fictional detective created by the American author Mickey Spillane in the 1947 book I, the Jury (made into a movie in 1953 and 1982).

Description Edit Block Several movies and radio and television series have been based on the books in the Hammer series. The actor most closely identified with the character in recent years has been Stacy Keach, who portrayed Hammer in a CBS television series, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, which ran from 1984–1987 and had a syndicated revival in 1997–1998. (An earlier syndicated version, originally aired in 1957–1958, starred Darren McGavin as Hammer.) Spillane himself played Hammer in a 1963 motion picture adaptation of The Girl Hunters. Spillane himself favoured ex-Marine and former Newburgh, New York police officer Jack Stang, on whom he based the character, to play him. Stang appeared with Spillane in the 1954 film Ring of Fear and in the film adaptation of I, the Jury.

Character Edit Block While pulp detectives such as Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe are hard-boiled and cynical, Hammer is in many ways the archetypal "hard man": brutally violent, misogynistic, and fueled by a genuine rage that never afflicts Raymond Chandler's or Dashiell Hammett's heroes. In The Big Kill Hammer describes himself to a bargirl as a misanthrope. While other hardboiled heroes bend and manipulate the law, Hammer holds it in total contempt, seeing it as nothing more than an impediment to justice, the one virtue he holds in absolute esteem. Hammer nevertheless has a strong respect for the majority of police, realising they have a difficult job and their hands are frequently tied by the law when trying to stop criminals. Mike Hammer is a no-holds barred Battle of Guadalcanal veteran private investigator who carries a .45 Colt M1911, named "Betsy" in a shoulder harness under his left arm. His love for his secretary Velda is only outweighed by his willingness to kill a killer. Hammer's best friend is Pat Chambers, Captain of Homicide NYPD. Hammer is also patriotic and anti-communist.

The novels are peppered with remarks by Hammer supporting American troops in Korea, and in Survival...Zero Vietnam. In One Lonely Night, where Hammer attends a communist meeting in a park, his reaction to the speaker's propaganda is a sarcastic "Yeah." So far as violence is concerned, the Hammer novels leave little to the imagination. Written in the first person, Hammer describes his violent encounters with relish. In all but a few novels, Hammer's victims are often left vomiting after a blow to the stomach or groin.

The Washington Times obituary of Spillane said of Hammer, "In a manner similar to Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry, Hammer was a cynical loner contemptuous of the 'tedious process' of the legal system, choosing instead to enforce the law on his own terms." Novels The Goliath Bone (2008, Mickey Spillane with Max Allan Collins) The Big Bang (2010, Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins) Audio Edit Block Radio Series - A December 1952 to October 1954 Mutual Broadcasting System radio series titled That Hammer Guy starred Larry Haines then George Petrie and Ted DeCorsia as Mike Hammer and Jan Miner as Hammer's secretary Velda and the voice of other female characters on the show. The broadcast was directed by Richard Lewis and authored by Ed Adamson. Audiobooks - An array of Spillane's novels have been produced as audiobooks. Several of these are performed by Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer veteran Stacy Keach.

Examples include Black Alley (Penguin Audio, 1996), The Big Kill (Simon & Schuster, 2010) and The Killing Man (Simon & Schuster, 2010). Blackstone Audio Productions - In 2008, Stacy Keach reprised the role of Mike Hammer in the first of a series of radio-style dramas entitled The New Adventures of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer. Keach refers to the production style, that is somewhere between an audiobook and and radio drama, as a "radio novel." The Audie-nominated inaugural production features the episodes, Dangerous Days and Oil and Water. Both were written exclusively for audio by M. J. Elliott and produced with a full cast, music and sound effects in radio drama style by Carl Amari of Falcon Picture Group, who personally selected Elliott to script the Audie Award-nominated dramas. Volume 2 of the series was released in 2009, featuring a 2.5 hour story entitled The Little Death. The story was written exclusively for audio by Max Allan Collins from a story by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins.

Volume 3, Encore for Murder, was released in March 2011. All three volumes have been released by Blackstone Audio and star Keach in the title role. Keach also arranges and performs the music featured in the productions and his wife, Malgosia Tomassi, portrays yoga instructor Maya Ricci. Television Edit Block There have been several television shows based on the exploits of Mike Hammer. A 1954 television pilot was developed starring Brian Keith that was written and directed by Blake Edwards, it was not picked up. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1958 - 1960 ; starring Darren McGavin) Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (Jan. 1984 - Jan. 1985 ; starring Stacy Keach) The New Mike Hammer (Sept. 1986 - May 1987 ; starring Stacy Keach) Mike Hammer, Private Eye (Sept.

1997 - June 1998 ; starring Stacy Keach) Movies DVD cover of The Girl Hunters I, the Jury (United Artists, 1953) Kiss Me Deadly (United Artists, 1955) My Gun Is Quick (United Artists, 1957) The Girl Hunters (Colorama Features, 1963) Margin For Murder (TV movie, 1981) I, the Jury (20th Century Fox, 1982) Come Die With Me (Fox, 1994) Mike Hammer: Song Bird (2003) (V) – a direct-to-video compilation of Mike Hammer, Private Eye's 1998 episodes of "Songbird: Part 1" and "Songbird: Part 2", where Stacy Keach played Mike Hammer and Shannon Whirry played his secretary Velda. Comics Edit Block A short-lived comic strip starring Mike Hammer was distributed by Phoenix Features Syndicate from 1953 to 1954. It was entitled From the Files of... Mike Hammer and written by Spillane, Ed Robbins and Joe Gill, with art by Ed Robbins.

Collections of the strip were published in the 1980s. In other media Novels featuring Hammer were referenced several times in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Both Odo and Miles O'Brien were fans. The film The Hebrew Hammer makes a reference to Mike Hammer as well. The Japanese TV series Detective Mike stars a young detective called 'Hama Mike' (Japanese pronunciation of 'Mike Hammer'). The 1986 video game Killed Until Dead by Artech Digital Entertainment features spoofs of famous characters including a "Mike Stammer". John Zorn's Spillane is a tribute to Mickey Spillane, which uses quotes of Mike Hammer voiced by John Lurie. Footnotes Mike Hammer - Private Investigator / Detective Mike Hammer Mike Hammer Hammer series is one of the highly appreciated series in the category of private eye detectives and he is famous with the name Mike Hammer. Mike Hammer is actually a fictional character created by Mickey Spillane. Mike Hammer or Michael Hammer was introduced by the American Author in the year 1947 in his famous series âI, The Juryâ inspired by the former Newburgh, new York law enforcement officer Jack Stang.

The character was very well appreciated by the readers and so it was also brought up in a movie, as well. Not just a movie, but Mike Hammer was initiated on radio and television, as well to raise the character popularity. Stacy Keach portrayed Mike Hammer in a television series named as âMickey Spillaneâs Mike Hammerâ which was aired from the year 1984 to 1987. Introduction Mike Hammer is a tough guy to handle and usually resolves the matters violently, but one thing that he sticks to every time is not being a kind to manipulate the law. Usually, the fictional characters are shown being tied with the law, especially while chasing criminals or while getting any evidence that can link them to the case. Mike Hammer respects the law, but he has his own way of solving the cases and then infiltrating into the case deeply so as to grab hold of the criminals. This way is generally not accepted by other fictional private detectives and this is what makes Mike Hammer a well accepted private detective character. Mike Hammer always carries a handgun under his left side of the shoulder. This handgun is .45 Colt M1911 which the anti communist and nationalistic character calls Betsy.

Mike has a best friend named Pat Chambers who is actually the Captain of Homicide and a secretary Welda who loves the way Mike exterminates the criminals. Radio and Television Series With the increasing popularity of the character Mike Hammer, a radio series was written by Ed Adamson. This series was aired from January to October, 1953 and was greatly cherished by listeners. The title of the series was âThat Hammer Guyâ starring Larry Haines as Mike Hammer and Jan Miner in the female voice. The show was directed by Richard Lewis and became one of the most appreciated series on radio. Similarly, the television series was also commenced with the name âMickey Spillaneâs Mike Hammerâ, but these series were developed starring Darren McGavin from 1958 to 1960 and then Stacy Keach from January 1984 to June 1998. Novels and Movies Mickey Spillaneâs character Mike Hammer was initiated in different novels on which movies were also featured.

Some of these novels include I, The Jury, My Gun is Quick, The big Kill, One lonely night, Black Alley, Survival Zero, The snake, The Twisted Thing and The Goliath Bone to name a few. Based on these novels, several movies were also filmed like I, The Jury, Kiss me Deadly, Margin for Murder and Come Die with me starring Biff Elliot, Ralph Meeker, Kevin Dobson and Rob Estes, respectively. A comic strip was also introduced for the lovers of Hammer series and this way, the character increased its popularity among the viewers, readers and listeners. Mystery writer Mickey Spillane dies - TODAY.com Today.com Mystery writer Mickey Spillane dies 2006-07-17T21:47:45.000Z Mickey Spillane created tough guy detective Mike Hammer, whose savage, shoot-’em-up exploits wowed millions and influenced Hollywood’s film noir movement. But he considered himself a writer, not an author. Books by writers, he said, are the ones that sell. “This is an income-generating job,” he told The Associated Press in a 2001 interview.

“Fame was never anything to me unless it afforded me a good livelihood.” The macho mystery writer died Monday at 88. Spillane’s wife, Jane, told The (Myrtle Beach) Sun News that he had cancer. Visitation was scheduled for Saturday at the Goldfinch Funeral Home, and a memorial service will be held July 29 at the Jehovah’s Witnesses Kingdom Hall near Spillane’s Murrells Inlet home, about 80 miles northeast of Charleston. After starting out in comic books, Spillane wrote his first Hammer novel, “I, the Jury,” which was published in 1947. Twelve more followed, with sales topping 100 million. Notable titles included “The Killing Man,” “The Girl Hunters” and “One Lonely Night.” Many Hammer books were made into movies, including the classic film noir “Kiss Me, Deadly” and “The Girl Hunters,” in which Spillane himself starred. Hammer stories were also featured on television in the series “Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer” and in made-for-TV movies. In the 1980s, Spillane appeared in a string of Miller Lite beer commercials.

“Thanks, Mickey, for giving the world so much pleasure during your time with us,” actor Stacy Keach, who portrayed Hammer on TV in the 1980s, said Monday in a statement. “We shall miss you, but we are comforted by the knowledge that your work and Mike Hammer will live forever.” More than just HammerBesides the Hammer novels, Spillane wrote a dozen other books, including some award-winning volumes for young people. Nonetheless, by the end of the 20th century, many of his novels were out of print or hard to find. In 2001, the New American Library began reissuing them. As a stylist, Spillane was no innovator; the prose was hard-boiled boilerplate. In a typical scene, from “The Big Kill,” Hammer slugs a little punk with “pig eyes.” “I snapped the side of the rod across his jaw and laid the flesh open to the bone,” Spillane wrote. “I pounded his teeth back into his mouth with the end of the barrel ... and I took my own damn time about kicking him in the face. He smashed into the door and lay there bubbling.

So I kicked him again and he stopped bubbling.” Mainstream critics had little use for Spillane, but he got his due in the mystery world, receiving lifetime achievement awards from the Mystery Writers of America and the Private Eye Writers of America. “What I liked about him was he was always aware of who and what he was,” said mystery writer Robert Parker, 73, whose novels feature Boston private eye Spenser. “He said to me once, ’I don’t have readers, I have customers.’ And I don’t think anyone, even in the solemnity of death, would argue that Mickey was a great writer, but he was a good guy and he was a successful writer and the combination ain’t bad.” Spillane, a bearish man who wrote on an old manual Smith Corona, always claimed he didn’t care about reviews. He was born Frank Morrison Spillane on March 9, 1918, in the New York borough of Brooklyn. He grew up in Elizabeth, N.J., and attended Fort Hays State College in Kansas, where he was a standout swimmer, before beginning his career writing for magazines.

He had always liked police stories — an uncle was a cop — and in his pre-Hammer days he created a comic book detective named Mike Danger. At the time, the early 1940s, he was writing for Batman, SubMariner and other comics. “I wanted to get away from the flying heroes and I had the prototype cop,” Spillane said. Danger never saw print. World War II broke out and Spillane enlisted. When he came home, he needed $1,000 to buy some land and thought novels the best way to go. Within three weeks, he had completed “I, the Jury” and sent it to Dutton Books. The editors there doubted the writing, but not the market for it; a publishing franchise began. His books helped reveal the power of the paperback market and became so popular they were parodied in movies, including the Fred Astaire musical, “The Band Wagon.” ‘Quintessential’He was a quintessential Cold War writer, an unconditional believer in good and evil. He was also a rare political conservative in the book world. Communists were villains in his work and liberals took some hits as well. He was not above using crude racial and sexual stereotypes.

Viewed by some as a precursor to Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry, Spillane’s Hammer was a loner contemptuous of the “tedious process” of the jury system, choosing instead to enforce the law on his own murderous terms. His novels were attacked for their violence and vigilantism — one critic said “I, the Jury” belonged in “Gestapo training school” — but some defended them as the most shameless kind of pleasure. While the Hammer books were set in New York, Spillane was a longtime resident of Murrells Inlet, a coastal community near Myrtle Beach. He moved to South Carolina in 1954 when the area, now jammed with motels and tourist attractions, was still predominantly tobacco and corn fields. Spillane said he fell in love with the long stretches of deserted beaches when he first saw the area from an airplane. The writer, who became a Jehovah’s Witness in 1951 and helped build the group’s Kingdom Hall, spent his time boating and fishing when he wasn’t writing.

In the 1950s, he also worked as a circus performer, allowing himself to be shot out of a cannon and appearing in the circus film “Ring of Fear.” The house in which he lived for 35 years was destroyed by the 135-mph winds of Hurricane Hugo in 1989. Married three times, Spillane was the father of four children. Mike Hammer, Private Eye (TV Series 1997-1998) — The Movie Database (TMDb) Find out where to watch on Overview Mike Hammer, Private Eye is an American syndicated television program based on the adventures of the fictitious private detective Mike Hammer, created by novelist Mickey Spillane. The show starred Stacy Keach and was seen as an attempt to revive the character he had played in Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer and The New Mike Hammer - two moderately successful syndicated CBS series from the 1980s. Mike Hammer, Private Eye premiered on September 27, 1997. The show failed to gain a wide audience and, as a result, it was canceled after only one season.

The final show of the series aired on June 14, 1998. Featured Crew Mike Hammer (TV Series 1958–1959) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error The adventures of Mickey Spillane's tough-talking, brawling, skirt-chasing private detective Mike Hammer, who's always ready to use his fists on a "mug" or his charm on a "skirt" to get the case solved. Stars: A convict on death row confesses to a murder that another man was executed for three years earlier and threatens to supply proof after he dies on the electric chair. Mike doesn't pay much attention ... 8.0 A pretty secretary swims across the lake to the cabin Mike has rented for vacation and invites him to a party at her uncle's estate. The party soon loses its appeal when Mike bumps into an old ... 7.6 A psychiatrist fears that his patients are being blackmailed.

He hires Mike to find out if his fears are founded, how the privileged information is being leaked and who is preying on his clients. 7.6 a list of 10 titles created 19 May 2011 a list of 117 titles created 24 Mar 2012 a list of 47 titles created 06 Aug 2012 a list of 105 titles created 03 May 2014 a list of 1444 titles created 12 Sep 2015 Search for " Mike Hammer " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Title: Mike Hammer (1958–1959) 8.5/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. The cases of Mickey Spillane's classic private eye character. Stars: Stacy Keach, Lindsay Bloom, Don Stroud Stacy Keach's original portrayal of the title character is revived with a new Velda and a different cop as his friend. Mike's cases are arranged to reflect the times of the late '90's.

Stars: Stacy Keach, Shane Conrad, Shannon Whirry The dying words of a thief spark a madcap cross-country rush to find some treasure. Director: Stanley Kramer Grey Holden wins a river boat in a poker game which he then captains,along with his crew, in various adventures along the Mississippi river. This action series is set in 19th century America. Stars: Darren McGavin, Dick Wessel, Jack Lambert Edit Storyline The adventures of Mickey Spillane's tough-talking, brawling, skirt-chasing private detective Mike Hammer, who's always ready to use his fists on a "mug" or his charm on a "skirt" to get the case solved. 7 January 1958 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer See more » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia This was one of the programs that Bobby Rupp and murder victims Herbert, Nancy and Kenyon Clutter watched the evening that they were killed by Richard Eugene Hickcok and Perry Edward Smith (November 15th, 1959). Bobby Rupp was Nancy Clutter's boyfriend and went home before the killers arrived.

See more » Connections Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer: One of the great detective shows to come out of the mid-1950's 5 September 2009 | by rcj5365 (Durham,North Carolina) – See all my reviews A lot of great actors have played Mickey Spillane's bad boy detective. From the list of Hollywood heavyweights from Anthony Quinn to Robert Bray,Biff Elliott,Ralph Meeker,Robert Mitchum,Stacey Keach and even Mickey Spillane himself. Perhaps from the range of actors that were convincing,nobody did it better with style and class better than Darren McGavin. His portrayal of gumshoe tough guy Mike Hammer was not only laid back but was a class act. Mickey Spillane's character was basically the first title used for two syndicated television series that followed the adventures of fictional private investigator Mike Hammer. This was the first of the two television series featuring the gritty,crime fighting detective. The first from the mid-1950's starred Darren McGavin while the other from the early-1980's starred Stacey Keach.

"Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer",with Darren McGavin in the title role,was the first syndicated television series based on Spillane's title character,the adventures of a tough gumshoe hard-boiled private detective. The series was itself one extremely violent,sexist series that was one of the coolest detective shows of its day. The series produced 78 episodes and it ran two seasons in syndication from 1956 to 1959. The series was produced by Revue Productions/MCA-TV Universal Studios. Filmed in Hollywood of course,with the opening and closing credits of the show using that scenery of New York as its theme. The black and white filming of the series enhances the film noir atmosphere. The entire premise of the show is that the world is an evil and violent place(the setting is New York),and the strong and upright must be as tough and quick as the baddies to set things right. In the space of a half-hour,Darren McGavin normally escapes assassination attempts on his life,beats at least one man to a bloody pulp while continuously flirts with one or more beautiful women,fires of some 50's tough guy slang while solving a murder and a mystery.

The pace of this show is very fast and once you watch it you may want to keep up with what happens next. Darren McGavin's character of Mike Hammer was a tough gumshoe private eye while regularly played judge,jury and executioner to an assortment of bad guys and crooked lowlifes each week. All within a 30 minute time slot. In the final analysis when Hammer solves the mysteries and brings the baddies to justice he may have to go beyond or stoop down to the level to take a case ,but you knew he was on the right side. His crusade against crime,while bravely protects the weak,despite taking a regular share of abuse in just about every episode,takes risk to himself by going great lengths to protect his clients' innocent. He is strong,cynical and have to be extremely violent to do what he has to do. Mike Hammer was the epitome of 50's cool and Darren McGavin was a brilliant to watch here.

Darren McGavin,after Mike Hammer was canceled in 1959 McGavin switched gears starring in the short-lived western series "Riverboat"(which was also produced by Revue Studios), and would return to played another hardboiled detective in the short-lived 1965 series called "The Outsider",and later on would go on to greater fame as Carl Kolchak in the classic supernatural-detective show of the early 1970's "Kolchak:The Night Stalker" Bart Burns played the role of Hammer's trustworthy ally in the police department Captain Pat Chambers. Burns who go on to guest star in several television series including "Dragnet","Columbo","Ironside",and "The Rockford Files". Speaking of the guest star roster for this classic series from the 1950's,you had stars that were coming up,but made a name for themselves during this time....from Barbara Bain,Robert Vaughn,John Forsythe,to Loren Greene,and even Carl Betz...the list goes on and on. What a show! 7 of 9 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you?

Yes Mike Hammer - The Full Wiki The Full Wiki More info on Mike Hammer Wikis Note: Many of our articles have direct quotes from sources you can cite, within the Wikipedia article! This article doesn't yet, but we're working on it! See more info or our list of citable articles . Related top topics Encyclopedia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Michael "Mike" Hammer is a fictional detective created by the American author Mickey Spillane in the 1947 book I, the Jury (made into a movie in 1953 and 1982). Contents 10 External links Description Several movies and radio and television series have been based on the books in the Hammer series. The actor most closely identified with the character in recent years has been Stacy Keach , who portrayed Hammer in a CBS television series, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer , which ran from 1984–1987 and had a syndicated revival in 1997–1998.

(An earlier syndicated version, originally aired in 1957–1958, starred Darren McGavin as Hammer.) Spillane himself played Hammer in a 1963 motion picture adaptation of The Girl Hunters . Spillane himself favoured ex- Marine and former Newburgh, New York police officer Jack Stang , on whom he based the character, to play him. Stang appeared with Spillane in the 1954 film Ring of Fear and in the film adaptation of I, the Jury . Character While pulp detectives such as Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe are hard-boiled and cynical, Hammer is in many ways the archetypal "hard man:" he is brutally violent, misogynistic , and fueled by a genuine rage that never afflicts Raymond Chandler 's or Dashiell Hammett 's heroes. In The Big Kill Hammer describes himself to a bargirl as a misanthrope . While other hardboiled heroes bend and manipulate the law, Hammer holds it in total contempt, seeing it as nothing more than an impediment to justice, the one virtue he holds in absolute esteem.

However unlike many fictional private detectives, Hammer has a strong respect for the majority of police , realising they have a difficult job and their hands are frequently tied by the law when trying to stop criminals. Hammer has no such constraints. Mike Hammer is a no-holds barred Battle of Guadalcanal veteran private investigator who carries a .45 Colt M1911 , named "Betsy" in a shoulder harness under his left arm. His love for his secretary Velda is only outweighed by his willingness to kill a killer. Hammer's best friend is Pat Chambers, Captain of Homicide NYPD. Hammer is also patriotic and anti-communist . The novels are peppered with remarks by Hammer supporting American troops in Korea , and in Survival...Zero Vietnam . In One Lonely Night , where Hammer attends a communist meeting in a park, his reaction to the speaker's propaganda is a sarcastic "Yeah." So far as violence is concerned, the Hammer novels leave little to the imagination. Written in the first person , Hammer describes his violent encounters with relish. In all but a few novels, Hammer's victims are often left vomiting after a blow to the stomach or groin.

The Washington Times obituary of Spillane said of Hammer, "In a manner similar to Clint Eastwood 's Dirty Harry , Hammer was a cynical loner contemptuous of the 'tedious process' of the legal system, choosing instead to enforce the law on his own terms." [1] Novels Armand Assante plays Hammer in this version. Come Die With Me (Fox, 1994) Rob Estes plays Hammer in this TV movie. Pamela Anderson plays his secretary Velda. Mike Hammer: Song Bird (2003) (V) – a direct-to-video compilation of Mike Hammer, Private Eye 's 1998 episodes of "Songbird: Part 1" and "Songbird: Part 2", where Stacy Keach played Mike Hammer and Shannon Whirry played his secretary Velda. Comics A short-lived comic strip starring Mike Hammer was distributed by Phoenix Features Syndicate from 1953 to 1954. It was entitled From the Files of... Mike Hammer and written by Spillane, Ed Robbins and Joe Gill, with art by Ed Robbins. Collections of the strip were published in the 1980s.

[4] In other media An audiobook version of Spillane's novel Black Alley , read by actor Stacy Keach , was released by Penguin Audio on November 1, 1996. Novels featuring Hammer were referenced several times in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Both Odo and Miles O'Brien were fans. The film The Hebrew Hammer makes a reference to Mike Hammer as well. The Japanese TV series Detective Mike stars a young detective called 'Hama Mike' (Japanese pronunciation of 'Mike Hammer'). The 1986 video game Killed Until Dead by Artech Digital Entertainment features spoofs of famous characters including a "Mike Stammer". In 2008, Stacy Keach reprised the role for an Audie-nominated audio mini-series entitled The New Adventures of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer. Both episodes, Dangerous Days and Oil and Water, were written by M. J. Elliott and produced with a full cast, music and sound effects in radio drama style by Carl Amari of Falcon Picture Group and released by Blackstone audio.

In 2009, Stacy Keach starred in Volume 2 of "The New Adventures of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer." This volume contained one 2.5 hour story entitled "The Little Death" written exclusively for audio by Max Allan Collins from a story by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins. Volume 3 is in the works. John Zorn 's Spillane is a tribute to Mickey Spillane, which uses quotes of Mike Hammer voiced by John Lurie . Footnotes

Question: Who created the detective Mike Hammer?
Answer: Mickey Spillane